Improved clothes-drier



when. @mail 'cI'DEoN" KING., or EMINENon-KENTUCKY. l Leum Pawnz'Nq.eafzddamz M@ 11,1869.

:turnovnn CLOTHES-Damn The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentand making part of the same.

To all whom 'it concern: v

Be it known that I, GIDEON KING, of the town of Eminence, in the countyof Henry, and State of Ken` tucky, have invented a new and usefulimproved Self- Supporting, Framed Folding Olothes-Drier; and I do herebydeclare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of thesame, -reference being had to the annexed'drawings, making apart of thisspecca tion, in which- Figure luis a plain side view when folded.-

Figure 2 `isa view of the upper end when unfolded,

and consists Iin combining two, three, four, or more frames.

A A, iig. 1, made with "two upm'ghts, G G, and two horizontalvbars,(each,) B B,Ainterlocled and confined together by means of an iron rod,c, through the centre of said bars perpendicularly, on which the frameshave a rotative motion fo'r folding and unfolding.

The inner sidesforedges lof the uprights gfg, g. 2, alrebe'velledat d dd d, or reduced tothe thickness of y the bars b b b b,\where they aretenoned into saidnprights, the 'outside `of which Vuprights is`sufficiently thick or wide vto cause'the inner ends of the arms e e e e(when unfolded) to extend under the bars b b b b, when confined tosaiduprights by screws at ffjf, iig. l, by which "extension the arms e e e,fig. 2, are held -up firmly in a horizontal position; which bevel alsocauses a. divergence ofthe arms e e e'e at any angle desired.

A galvanized metallic plate, h h h h, 1, (or its.

equivalent, shaped at right angles,) is con ned to the outside of theuprights G G, on which the arms e e c e rest when unfolded or in use.

Aset of rotating arms, K, fig. 1, operates'on rod c,

on the upper end of tube l, between the upper and lower bars B B,and'occupies spaces n n, fig. 2, when in use. l

The lower bars B .and uprights G G, g. 1, are braced, t i, in order topermanence and strength to the said uprights, which act as legs for thedevice.

Thus constructed, it can be folded closely with the The frames A A, mdo, beven z d d d, arms 6 e e e,

plates h h h h, arms K, tuberi, and braces 1', i, when combined,arranged, and constructed substantially as and for the purposespecified. v

GIDEON KING.

Witnesses:

J. MBEBBY, DKN. Fomsns.

